'Venom', its $ 102 million debut revitalizes the theater market – Variety

Tom Hardy, star of "Venom", has injected into the Chinese box office a much-needed juice, with a premiere of $ 102 million, a first of a successful weekend. The film crushed other novelties and fallout.

Data from Artisan Gateway, which excludes online ticketing fees, show that the superhero movie received 73% of the total Chinese box office this weekend. The second Japanese animation, "Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer", reported $ 10.6 million, or 7.5% of the total.

The strong performance of "Venom" is a valuable asset to the Chinese film market, which has suffered a series of accumulations below $ 100 million of the top ten films over the previous nine weekends. Total box office sales jumped to $ 140 million, a total of $ 7.30 billion since the beginning of the year, up 9% from the same year-over-year level. latest.

The weekend score for "Venom" is China's fifth largest film opening this year and the third largest outside the Chinese New Year period. The immediate comparison is made with "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom", which opened on a similar amount of $ 111 million and then brought in $ 261 million in China.

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The score "Venom" is also the second largest opening for a superhero movie in China, the fifth largest premiere for an imported film and the biggest opening in China for a Sony title. (In China, the release is handled by China Film Co. and Huaxia Distribution.)

The score was obtained thanks to a huge Saturday performance of around $ 43 million and an extension of its daily projections from 166,000 on Friday to 188,000 on Saturday and Sunday. They included 553 Imax screens, which received $ 10 million in three days. This is the eighth best result of the opening weekend for Imax in China.

Third place this weekend was "The Hurricane Heist", with a gross amount of $ 5.4 million. The American title totals $ 11.9 million after 10 days of publication.

Fourth place was occupied by the Chinese film "Last Letter", ranked first, with Zhou Xun. He earned $ 5.4 million in his first three days.

Disney's "Nutcracker and Four Kingdoms" returned $ 3.6 million in its second weekend. After 10 days of release, he raised $ 14.5 million.